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The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo-Boer War, or South African War, was fought between the British Empire...

See also: Afrikaners A Boer is a descendant of Dutch, German and French speaking immigrants to 17th and 18th century southern Africa. After their wanderings...

people not shot dead when they arrived at the first laager? — The Last Boer War, H. Rider Haggard, p. 237 Vicinity of Lang’s Nek, February 1881. From a...

best thing the Manchester Guardian has done in my time was to oppose the Boer War... We were together there. Letter to David Lloyd George (April 1930), quoted...

of Boer poetry and script. The writing appears prose from the translated Boer poetic lines. From Drummer Hodge: The Poetry of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)...

endure until the bitter end. I will do so. During a war council meeting in Kroonstad, 2nd Anglo-Boer War. Marthinus Theunis Steyn - regsman, staatsman en...

in The Sphere, p. 250 (23 March 1907) Following the Boer War came a sharp cleavage among the Boers. That great farm-bred soldier and statesman, Louis Botha...

See also: Boer Afrikaners (Afrikaans: Afrikaners, pronounced [afrəˈkɑːnərs, afri-]) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch...

usually known as Jopie Fourie, was a scout and dispatch rider during the Boer War. He was executed by firing squad during the Rebellion of 1914 - 1915 against...

British Army. ... the Jameson Raid was the real declaration of war. Smuts on the Second Boer War, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage...

10th of September 2018 Two decades after the destruction of the Anglo Boer War, the Afrikaners didn't blame the past for all their troubles. They baked...

October 1856 – 9 November 1941) was a British war correspondent during the Second Boer War and World War I, a campaigning journalist exposing slavery in...

Campbell or "Mrs. Pat" in reference to her first husband, who died in the Boer War. Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they...

Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres. In the Second World War, he...

the Tories were cynically capitalising on their early success in the Boer war to try to win another thumping majority over the Liberals. It was also...

reasonable, there will be no war, but the issue is in his hands. Letter to the Queen of the Netherlands shortly before the Second Boer War (September 1899), quoted...

in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand (1879) and the First Boer War (1880–1881). In the earlier part of his...

refuge from the vicious cycle of rural destitution and urban poverty. The Boer War: 1899-1902 (1992), written and directed by Andrew Aitken No other troops...

committing in its South African concentration camps during the Second Boer War. The parallels to the news of the day seemed obvious. It is important now...

Homer, Odyssey, XII. 412. Quoted by John Morley in a speech during the Boer War. Also by John Bright in his speech on America, June 29, 1867. Compare Archilochus—Frag...